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March 21, 2006
Iraq - three choices predicated on three choices
America can do one of three things to bring "peace" to Iraq.
1) Surrender
2) Negotiate
3) Win
Look at the picture from the "anti-war" demonstration on March 18 in Frisco (then see the whole gallery with pithy commentary at ZombieTime). It's easy to see they enthusiastically support option #1. Defeat of America and Israel (and by extension, Western Civilization) is their faith. Do, go see the oozing antisemitism, the rabid anti-Americanism, the call to anarchy and "crush" capitalism evident in the [cough] "anti-war" [cough] demonstrators. There is no need to wonder why they make common cause with the jihadists.
Some American Leftists are a bit more fastidious, but not by much. They don't even want to address the choices, just ramble on and on about the past, repeating arguments they've lost like repeating mantra's to a string of beads slipping over their fingers again and again and again.
Make no mistake. The wrong choice of three leads to another set of choices. The wrong choice, in support of those people out to demoralize the American military, to cripple our troops, who constantly beat the drum that OUR government is the “real” enemy and the terrorism of 9/11 is really "our fault" or not our concern or only a “criminal” matter, Islamism WILL gain the upper hand. The US might survive but it will be dhimmitized. Islamists have tried in Canada for Sharia law to be accepted. Islamists in Britain work to get polygamy legalized and almost half want Sharia to be the law in areas of Britain dominated by moslems. Is Eurabia in the near future so unthinkable a thing? How long will the US, as we know it today, last against Islamist totalitarian theocracies in place of the EU?
And that's when the second set of three choices comes to the fore when dealing with the ideology of Islamism.
1) Convert
2) Submit
3) Die
The choice is yours.
Technorati: Islamism, Iraq, Islamo-fascism
Posted by Darleen at March 21, 2006 06:19 PM
Comments
Thing is, no one can define winning in Iraq. Since no one can define victory in any concrete sense, the only alternatives are staying indefinitely as occupyers, or simply withdrawing to much smaller military concessionary areas.
Or just get out altogether.
Posted by: Carl W. Goss at March 21, 2006 07:42 PM
Carl
Would you say we won in Germany? Japan?
Neither one of them had "easy" occupations and STILL have American troops on their soil.
Posted by: Darleen at March 21, 2006 08:10 PM
Yes Darleen, but the Middle East is another story altogether;it's totally outside the experience of Western civilization.
In Europe there was a pre-existing tradition of liberalism, equality and free thought as well as separation of church and state. Perhaps less so in Japan.
Point is, those occupations were a lot easier than what we're faced with today.
I don't see how you can win anything when you are dealing with a series of more or less stateless insurgencies motivated by sectarian or tribal forces.
Anyway, the right-wing idealogues are jumping ship.
Buckley, Fukuyama, Will and others are finally facing reality.
The American people dislike the war and feel nothing good is coming out of it.
At least nothing that is worth the cost in US lives.
Posted by: Carl W. Goss at March 22, 2006 07:49 AM
At least nothing that is worth the cost in US lives.
Then they best learn to submit to Islam. That's the choice. Convert or die, infidel!
I know, as an enlightened person, you don't like to view the world in such stark black & white tones. But the Islamists don't give a flying fig what you like. That's the choice they intend to present to you.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at March 22, 2006 09:21 AM